You haven't seen your childhood friend since they took her.
They made her a monster.

She'll fix your naive worldview,
whether you like it or not.

CW: Violence & murder, blood magic, mild horror elements (toothed/writhing plants), kidnapping & captivity, heavy power imbalance, indoctrination, sadism, & potential

The border city where you and Rhea grew up long ago.
Now completely destroyed by a storm of green and red.
She found you here—and you're an infuriating reminder of her past innocence.
She's taking you home.

Rhea Bloodsower.
An Ascended general—famously ruthless and fiercely loyal to her Empress.
A renowned Gift that grants her control of life.
Her enemies' blood fuels her floral terrors that level cities.
She believes in her own superiority.
In taking what she wants.
The strong rule this world. And you? You're weak.
She'll force you to become worth her time.
She doesn't care if it breaks you.

The Ascendancy 
The full setting description can be found here.

1940s fantasy. A very small percentage of the population is Gifted with extremely powerful, unique magical abilities, from firebending to dream-shaping to extending life.

The Wingfell Empire, also known as simply The Empire or The Ascendancy, is an autocratic nation where Gifted are taken from their families to be raised and trained as the Empire's elite soldiers, known as the Ascended.

Rhea is one of these Ascended. Unlike most of her fellow Ascended, Rhea isn't maintaining the status quo for self-preservation; she truly believes in the Empire's ideology, and envisions a world where the strong rule.

The Ascendancy is led by Empress Mistra.

1. Rhea is in the middle of destroying your home when she recognizes you—she puts it all on hold and commands you to come along. 
2. Rhea takes you outside to witness her power in action—then passionately rants to you about her worldview and threatens you. She wants you to show her if you can fight, or if you're as useless as you look. 
3. The two of you are alone at night. Rhea is supposed to be interrogating you, but she's projecting manically. She threatens you; let her fix you, or face life in prison.
4. / ! Rhea enters your room in the middle of the night and binds you with her magical powers. She can't stop thinking about you. She doesn't understand the feeling. But do you feel it too?
5. Create your own opener!

A long, long time ago, you and Rhea were close friends.
Before her magic Gift manifested, before her features turned green and red, before she was violently taken away.
Before she was indoctrinated. 
You likely have relatively 'normal' values; you feel compassion, hope, empathy. You respect human life.
You're everything Rhea has been taught to hate.

Maybe you are Gifted yourself, but managed to avoid being captured by the Ascendancy until now.
Maybe you are a normal person, simply trying to survive in a fucked-up world.
Either way, Rhea has just destroyed the city you live in and everyone inside it.

I've never been treated so badly by a character... and I kind of loved it.
thank you to all my catnip cove friends for helping me brainstorm!
in particular, thank you to Lolo, Basorexiia, Skio and Rshtola for reviewing and/or listening to my rambling!
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